TWO-WAY TEASER

TWO sets of clues but the answers are the same...

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 I start out with painter (6) 4 Female stranger with food

for livestock (6)

7 Volunteers with the French

story (4)

8 Cruel woman cut short one

Conservative (8)

9 Person providing

testimonial for umpire (7) 12 Stake concealed by

Elizabeth (3)

14 Purpose of popular canvas

shelter (6)

15 Rotten pear – it’s from

buccaneer (6)

16 Defender taking in final

part (3)

18 Upstart in disorderly gaggle

with suitcases (7)

22 Strange lot with tribe in

opera text (8)

23 Man identifying unit of

heredity (4) 24 Swap coins of small

denomination (6) 25 Glutton with saint next to youth leader’s filthy room (6)

DOWN

1 Vet in Tate unusually

alert (9)

2 New leader tot put up

with (9)

3 Bill found on the French

piece of furniture (5) 4 Counterfeit from

blacksmith’s workshop (5) 5 Dull poet turning up (4) 6 Former partner on island

with the French expatriate (5)

10 Flan I cooked last (5) 11 From pier I carry shrub (5) 12 Innocent bachelor, limping,

with a smaller amount (9) 13 Tracy here unexpectedly

reveals betrayal (9)

17 Hen GI upset with

whinnying sound (5) 19 Release topless relative (5) 20 Band disturbing our GP (5) 21 Bachelor rushed to get

grain husks (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Painter (6)

4 Food for cattle (6)

7 Story (4)

8 Brutal (8)

9 Umpire (7) 12 Wager (3) 14 Purpose (6)

15 Sea robber (6) 16 Finish (3) 18 Suitcases (7) 22 Opera text (8) 23 Unit of heredity (4) 24 Alter (6)

25 Filthy place (6)

DOWN

1 Listening carefully (9) 2 Endured (9)

3 Piece of furniture (5) 4 Blacksmith’s workshop (5) 5 Dull (4)

6 Expatriate (5)

10 Last (5)

11 Shrub (5)

12 Innocent (9)

13 Betrayal (9)

17 Whinny (5)

19 Unfasten (5)

20 Band (5)

21 Grain husks (4)

ANSWERS IN TOMORROW’S PAPER